Wednesday, November 27, 2013

Border agents attacked on the border by crowd form Mexico...

More than 100 people pelted U.S. Border Patrol agents
with rocks and bottles during a rowdy confrontation Sunday afternoon
along the U.S.-Mexico border, federal authorities said.
Nobody was seriously injured and it’s not clear whether the crowd was
trying to enter the U.S. illegally or hold a demonstration, but the
sight of a large crowd surging beyond the border rattled nerves.
Agents said it harked to the days in the 1990s when migrants would
run across the border en masse, in so-called banzai runs that would
overwhelm agents. As the crowd on Sunday crossed the Tijuana River into
California, more than one dozen agents responded to the border fence
atop the levee and deployed pepper spray to hold them back, triggering
the melee.
Several agents were hit in the arms and legs with rocks and one agent
was hit in the head with a filled water bottle, officials said. The
crowd eventually dispersed.
“It was extremely unusual,” said agent Timothy Hamill, an agency spokesman. “It was dangerous, very dangerous.”